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The settlements that are gone
The Geographic Names Information System records 7 places in Butler County, Ohio that are no longer settlements. The government mapped every one of them, and those sheets survive.
No longer settlements
7A place leaves this list only by being unmade: the post office closes, the mine works out, the road moves. The name stays in the federal gazetteer, flagged historical, and the topographic sheets that recorded it stay in the archive.
| Where in the county | Place | Where it stood | Nearest place today | Mapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlone | Greenhills quadrangle | 0.5 miles west of Indian Springs | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1986 | |
| Hanover | Millville quadrangle | 1.6 miles south-east of Alamo Heights | 14 sheets, 1915 to 1986 | |
| Ixworth | on Crawford Run, Greenhills quadrangle | 0.3 miles west of Dixiedale | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1986 | |
| Jones | Greenhills quadrangle | 0.5 miles south of Stockton | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1986 | |
| McDonald | College Corner quadrangle | 1.8 miles west of Contreras | 16 sheets, 1915 to 1992 | |
| Millikin | Glendale quadrangle | 1.0 miles north of Princeton | 15 sheets, 1904 to 1986 | |
| Ogleton | Millville quadrangle | 2.5 miles north of Oxford | 14 sheets, 1915 to 1986 |
Provenance
- Which settlements are gone. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey. A place is listed here when the federal gazetteer flags its record historical; that is the government's judgement, not this site's.
- Where each one stood. The gazetteer's own coordinates, and the nearest named landform and quadrangle from the same file.
- Distance and direction to the nearest surviving place. Computed here from the gazetteer coordinates of both places, straight line, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
- Sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The count is of sheets covering the site, so it describes how often the AREA was surveyed and not how long the settlement lasted.